Rohzin

Floods and a cloudburst submerge Mumbai on 26 July 2005, and the novel announces at once that this is the final day for two lovers, Asrar and Hina. Flashbacks then follow Asrar from his arrival in the city, whose unseen corners and underworld he comes to know, through his entanglements with his teacher Ms Jamila and with Shanti, a sex worker, to the sudden love for Hina that begins at the Haji Ali Dargah. Around them move other lives: Hina's classmate Vidhi and her lovers, her father Yusuf and his feelings for Aymal. Mixing legend, religion and magic realism, the book explores desire, yearning and the absence of love, with Mumbai itself as a central presence.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

357 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

India, 2005

First published

2016 by Arshia Publications

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789383322503 (original)

9780670093861 (Vintage (Penguin Random House India), India)